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Privacy Tip #310 – Gift Card Scams Rampant During the Holiday Season

By Linn Foster Freedman on December 9, 2021
Posted in Privacy Tips

Gift card scams continue to be one of the most frequently-reported scams to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to its recent Scam Alert entitled Scammers are tricking more people into buying gift cards, “40,000 people reported losing a whopping $148 million in gift cards to scammers during the first nine months of 2021.”…

Privacy Tip #127 – Emails Continue to Pose High Risk to Companies

By Linn Foster Freedman on February 22, 2018
Posted in Privacy Tips

According to a Proofpoint study that analyzed 160 billion emails delivered to 2,400 global companies at the end of 2017, 88.8 percent of organizations were targeted by at least one email phishing attack over the past year. This is an increase over its 2016 report conclusion of 75 percent.

In addition, more identities were spoofed…

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